{"id":1173,"date":"2025-01-12T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:46:00","slug":"praying-to-hear-gods-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/01\/12\/praying-to-hear-gods-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying To Hear God&#8217;s Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our reader Julie Taylor along with a testimony from Tammy remembering her Baptism in 1984. On the first Sunday of Epiphany &#8211; 12\/01\/25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/120125_202501\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Right click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/120125_202501\/120125.mp3\"><strong>HERE!<\/strong><\/a> to download<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 9:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 3 v 15-18 &#038; 21-22<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15<\/b><\/font>\n The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if\nJohn might possibly be the Messiah. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>16<\/b><\/font> John answered them all, \u2018I baptise you\nwith water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose\nsandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and\nfire. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17<\/b><\/font> His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and to\ngather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable\nfire.\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>18<\/b><\/font> And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed\nthe good news to them.\n<br><br><br>\n\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font>\n When all the people were being baptised, Jesus was baptised too. And as\nhe was praying, heaven was opened \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font> and the Holy Spirit descended on him\nin bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: \u2018You are my Son,\nwhom I love; with you I am well pleased.\u2019\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our reader Julie Taylor along with a testimony from Tammy remembering her Baptism in 1984. On the first Sunday of Epiphany &#8211; 12\/01\/25. Right click\u00a0HERE! to download Sermon starts at 9:45 Luke 3 v 15-18 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/01\/12\/praying-to-hear-gods-spirit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,10,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}